Bonjour!
Early Rising Challenge: Day 2!
I feel like a new woman and it has only just begun! Last night I was in bed by 10:30pm. I can’t remember the last time I was in bed that early!!!! Truly ground-breaking for me. I think I fell asleep around 11:30pm, so this is definitely progress.
I was up and at ‘em at 6:30am again this morning. It wasn’t as hard to get up this morning which was nice.
I made a big pot of Japanese Sencha and then stumbled over to the treadmill for an amazing interval workout. Intervals are my favourite cardio workout!
The walking hill workout:
- 5 min warm-up at 4.0mph, incline 10%
- 2 mins. at 4.3mph, incline 10%
- 3 mins at 4.0 mph, incline 15%
- 5 mins at 4.2 mph, incline 15%
- REPEAT 2, 3,& 4 three times
- 5 min Cool down (speed 3.5-2.5, incline 10-0%)
- Total: a very sweaty 50 min workout!
Showered, came downstairs, and made a wonderful fresh juice!
The ingredients today were quite crazy!
Not For The Faint Of Heart Juice
- 1/2 Lime
- Small piece ginger
- 1/2 beet
- 3 stalks organic celery
- 3 organic carrots
Made a wonderful sorbet again! Cherry beet and lime sorbet, perhaps? ;)
After stirring:
HUBBA HUBBA is all I could say about this juice. It was delicious in its’ own strange beet-y way! The beet was the first thing I tasted followed by the celery, lime, and ginger. Carrots got lost. If you prefer sweet juices this is not for you- you might want to add an apple or berries?
I loved how healthy this tasted. For me, the weirder it tastes the more I like it. :D
The wheels are a spinning!
Breakfast was another delicious Banana Bread Baked Breakfast Cake!
Now I’ve got an ultrasound to go to followed by a loooooooong 10+ hour day of baking.
A secret ingredient for the new Valentine’s Day Glo bar just arrived too! :D So excited.
I also just realized that I missed the airing of my radio interview this morning! Oops.
Blogging continues to be CRAZY fast now that hyperlinking works. Hallelujah!!!
GIT ER DONE!
I can’t get over how pretty the juice pulp looks. I am a sucker for bright colors. And anything sparkly. :)
The juice looks wonderful! Aren’t beets and ginger great additions to fresh juice??
A. I have heard that beets are a great addition to fresh juice, although I have yet to try it myself.
B. Um, ultrasound?? Is there something I misssd?!
B. Nope! :)
I was wondering the same thing = ) I actually got really excited you!! Someday you’ll have cute little “green” monsters running around!! Ha!
I’m new to juicing as well. I wanted to put some beet in my juice this AM…should I peel it first? and if so, is it easy to do while completely raw or do you have to do something special? thanks!!!
I peeled it but not sure its necessary!
oops sorry i thought you meant ginger, I did not peel my beets.
I don’t peel either beet or ginger and I put both in all of my juices!
wow! the juice looks so pretty!
hope everything goes ok at your ultrasound. i’m so excited to hear about valentines day glo bars!
diana
Ultrasound? Hmmmmmm
Your blog is making me really want to buy a juicer. Can you talk more about how annoying the clean up is to deter me? :)
its annoying because I still havent cleaned mine from this morning. However i figure I wash so many dishes with the bakery what is a few more?
I found it to be a bit of a pain, because sometimes it took a while to clean up all the little bits of pulp from the juicer metal section. It becomes part of a routine — and I’d often make a little extra juice for morning that would be rushed (so I didn’t have to mess with clean-up).
Good job with the workout. I like doing interval because they really help keep your mind off the time!
i want to know what you are going to do with all that pulp!
You’re making want to get a juicer now!
I LOVE the brightness of that juice! Excited to see what you do with pulp – wasting part of the fruit/veg is what turns me off juicing!
Lime+ginger is my fav combo. I susually have it with Romaine and apple, but I’d love to try a beet!
add clove of garlic…so good.
Your juices concotions are inspiring and look amazing! I’d love to get a juicer but find it painful enough as it is to clean out my food processor, blender, and my garlic press.
I love the beet flavor! The beet greens are good, too!
I like that you ended your post with “GIT R DONE”. Hilarious!!
I used to use beets all the time when I first got the juicer but have been sticking with green for the most part lately with the occassional carrot thrown in. Isn’t mixing it up fun?!
Anyhoo, I had made a cake/bread/big square muffin type thing with some leftover carrot/beet/apple pulp and added some shredded coconut before. I’m excited to see what you turn it into!
whoa valentine’s glo bars . . . how romantic!
The juice pulp looks so festive!
I hope your ultrasound goes well…nothing to worry about I hope?
Hope not!
Beets are one of my all time favorite vegetables!! They are so pretty too.